Re: Spam & GCI

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 14:45, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> We (Alaska Power and Telephone) pretty much had no choice but to
> whitelist GCI due to the massive amount of false positives that spamcop
> blocking generated.
>
> Leif is right, monitoring what your users send is a huge task and is
> almost impossible with any real effectiveness.
>
> I agree that filtering before the message is accepted (read milter) is
> very powerful but I don't think GCI is using sendmail.
>
> This is why I don't care for MTAs that accept the message before any
> processing is done (qmail, exchange, etc.)
>
> Virus scanning before the message is accepted is especially cool because
> viruses a stopped at the edge which greatly reduces double bounces.
>
> schu
>
I use qmail and I do virus checking at the smtp level before it is
passed to qmail.

Jon

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Received on Tue Apr 20 16:56:03 2004